Tips to Stop Smoking

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Doctor Kim Makoi I'm a holistic chiropractor and certified addictionologist in San Francisco and these are some tips to stop smoking. Smoking is very complicated addiction and there are many, many reasons why it's hard for people to quit. The reasons are as various as the people who are trying to quit. So if you are trying to quit you should try a number of different approaches because they are all going to have varying degrees of helpfulness. So some people find a lot of help using herbal support. Some of the herbal support include herbs such as Lobelia which some people find to help to decrease their nicotine cravings, sometimes there's an approach called auricular therapy which involved stimulating points on the ear to help decrease certain cravings. There's actually a point on the ear called the nicotine point which helps to decrease these cravings. And that can be stimulated either by an acupuncturist with a needle or the points can also be stimulated on the ear using an electrical stimulation device such as this. It's just called a Stimplus. The benefits to a tool like this is that it does not have to be applied by a health professional, you can actually learn how to use this by yourself, and stimulate your own nicotine craving points. Which makes it a very handy tool. You can also attempt things such as hypnotherapy which some people find very simple. And of course there's always cold turkey. So if you are going to go that route maybe make sure you are away from your friends or family or people who may, you may irritate during those first couple of days when the mood swings are the worst. And those are some tips to quit smoking."